Utilities Solutions

Harness the power of big data.

Visualize asset performance. And boost reliability.

Fewer failures and less downtime – planned and unplanned – across sites and assets. Better equipment efficiency and higher overall quality. And the ability to accurately predict outages before they occur, while running assets at peak performance. Our utilities solutions provide a broad scope of analytic and predictive capabilities to give you better results, using:

Asset reliability analytics. Reduce the number of unplanned outages and optimize maintenance schedules.

Storm analytics. Shrink outage duration by employing analytics before, during and after a storm to improve the effectiveness of your preparation and restoration efforts.

Smart meter analytics. Optimize smart meter deployment and manage timely customer communications to get the most value from your investment.

Capture and analyze data regardless of format or source to reveal the real triggers behind maintenance issues. Know the best corrective actions to take in each situation – and when to take them. Ensure peak performance by using monitoring, predictive models and alerts issued at predefined thresholds. With SAS you can:

Accurately predict potential problems. Integrated data – from sensors, inspections, maintenance, inventory, history and warranties – combines with root-cause analysis to reveal the true reasons for performance problems out of hundreds or thousands of measures and conditions.

Quantify the effects of maintenance plans. Simulate the impact of storms based on vegetation management and other maintenance schedules. Predict vulnerable assets and stage resources prior to adverse events in order to minimize the impact to customers.

Boost uptime, performance and productivity. Get alerts so maintenance teams can make pending repairs as part of regularly scheduled maintenance. And select the most cost-effective way to replace degrading assets.

Lower maintenance costs and the risk of revenue loss. Advanced optimization algorithms and solvers expand maintenance cycles without jeopardizing uptime or risking failures. Rapidly diagnose and repair issues with near-real-time insight into performance. And use advanced analytics to make better preparations and restoration efforts before and after storms.

Know your customers. Cleanse and integrate data from billing and operational systems and third parties. Use text analytics to reveal customer sentiment. And gain an accurate picture of the entire customer relationship across brands, channels and locations.

See how to adapt. Actually see how different customer segments consume energy – when, where and why – using data visualization. And predict how they’ll use it tomorrow so you’ll know when to change service offerings or adjust forecasted energy demand.

Smart grid. Smart meter. Smarter forecasts.

Optimized resource allocations. Improved planning and capital expense budgeting. And the ability to predict the volume, magnitude and location of demand. Our utilities solutions offer a broad, highly sophisticated set of algorithms for energy forecasting, which includes:

Renewable energy forecasting. Know in advance how much wind power and solar energy will be available at any given time.

Harness new data streams to improve, minute-by-minute, how you respond to changing use conditions. Use a variety of advanced analytical tools to understand past trends, forecast the future and see clearly how your business functions. Then share your insights across all levels of the organization. With SAS, you can:

Build reliable forecasts, quickly. Capture usage information in 15- or 30-minute intervals, then develop models for small time increments. And forecast energy demand at any level of geographic or asset hierarchy, including meter level.

Improve decisions. Make better decisions about the power portfolio, and discover how climate, economic factors and other determinants will affect your forecast with multiple views of trends and correlations. Understand how changes to independent variables will affect demand load and revenue using predictive modeling.

Learn about our energy forecasting solutions

SAS has the functionality to do what we need now and what we anticipate needing in the future.

Collections optimization. Determine the most effective collections program for every customer.

Payment analytics. Match your rate programs with the payment plans that are best suited for each customer before a default condition occurs.

Identify fraud, diversion and theft of service quickly and accurately. Ensure that your collections techniques accommodate reasonable care regulations and individual situations. Then determine which collections program, rate and/or payment plan will work best for each customer. SAS enables you to:

Optimize collections. Account for sensitive financial transactions and build risk scores for customers based on credit ratings, usage patterns and payment history. Then score payment propensity to determine which collections program will be most effective.

Use the right resources at the right time. Increase the efficiency of fraud-related resources, including investigators and field assets. Build sustainable cost performance and increase debt recovery.

Match the right rate and payment plans. Test and optimize treatment strategies using predictive analytics and what-if scenarios. Then decide which combination of rate and payment plans are best to help customers keep their accounts current.

Deeper insight. More control. Better risk management.

Reduced regulatory, financial and market risks. The promise of new opportunities and the insight to pursue them. And fast, confident decisions from the front office to the back. Our utilities solutions include an integrated energy portfolio and risk management framework that helps you with:

Energy trading and risk management. Minimize the effects – or capitalize on opportunities – of energy and commodity price volatility.

Gain more insights faster. Streamline and automate tasks throughout your business with a flexible, easy-to-use visual interface that provides a consistent, portfolio-level view of consolidated risk measures.

Tap into a broad range of capabilities. With deal capture, data integration, advanced predictive analytics, compliance reporting and a full suite of leading-edge modeling tools, you’ll have everything you need to make risk management an underlying part of all your organization’s processes.

Test before you leap. In a centralized, controlled environment, you can create and maintain pricing and valuation models based on market data sourced from multiple perspectives. Then simulate and stress test various scenarios.